Minutes ago the Charlotte Bobcats waived Jeff McInnis. The explanation given was that this would give him an opportunity to hook up with a playoff team. It makes perfect sense, right? Take a look at the stats for Jeff’s last 5 games. What playoff team in their right mind wouldn’t be blowing up the cellphone of Jeff’s agent ( do scrubs have agents??? ) to add this kind of productivity to their roster

Jeff’s last 5 games as a Bobcat

-vs- Knicks 26 minutes, 4 points, 3 assists

-vs- Wizards 30 minutes, 12 …

This season Sam Vincent has shown an incredible amount of commitment to Jeff McInnis.

So much so that he has been willing to slide Raymond Felton over to the SG spot to insure that Jeff got the starting PG gig and that he was on the court running the show during critical times of the game.

Some of Sam’s lineup choices don’t make a lot of sense to me or other folks

BobcatsPlanet Member Mustachio for example:

never doubt the genius of Sam Vincent… he might start Earl at Power forward against the …

In a recent  article from HoopsWorld, they discuss what the Bobcats are missing. This is their take :

The most glaring question mark in Charlotte’s lineup is in the
backcourt. In an unexpected move, head coach Sam Vincent granted Jeff
McInnis the starting point guard role and moved Raymond Felton to the
two spot. This change followed the Nazr Mohammed trade, which shook up
the lineup, but McInnis had done little to warrant the promotion.
Besides, Felton had already established himself as a point guard and he
admitted that although he will play wherever Vincent puts him, …

A few interesting links that I ran into today:

Based on these comments, its obvious that Charley Rosen has NEVER watched Bernard Robinson play at the professional level … And he definitely hasn't seen that goofy spin move of his.

Here's a closer look at the Bernard Robinson for Jeff McInnis swap.
The former is a wildly talented slasher, lacking a reliable long-range game, but virtually irresistible when he can run loose in an uptempo game. His fundamental shortcomings on defense are almost compensated for by his quickness in attacking …

From the Bobcats’ standpoint, there isn’t a whole lot to analyze here. 1) We desperately needed a natural point guard before Raymond Felton becomes so burnt out that he gets photographed falling asleep at a club wearing no underwear. 2) Jeff McInnis was out there, he’s put up roughly 11-point/5-assist/1.5-turnover seasons in each of the four seasons he’s played more than 70 games at 30 minutes per, and for whatever reason he was on the New Jersey junk heap (the figurative one—not one of NJ’s many actual junk heaps). 3) …